Pylaemenes mitratus is a species of stick insects (Phasmatodea) native to Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. The species is also known by the common name Money Plant Stick Insect, which refers to the most well-known food plants, Epipremnum aureum, which is also known as money plant.
Pylaemenes mitratus
female of Pylaemenes mitratus, drawing from the original description by Redtenbacher 1906
Datamini is the only tribe within the subfamily of the Dataminae from the order of the Phasmatodea. The representatives of this subfamily are on average not as large as those of the other two subfamilies belonging to the family of Heteropterygidae.
Image: Datamini overview
Image: Range of Dataminae
Dares validispinus, pair
Orestes draegeri, pair